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The Future Of Finance Initiative

The Future of Finance Initiative seeks to identify and address new challenges for policy and regulation in India given the waves of digital innovation currently sweeping financial services. Our work in this initiative studies the impacts of digitisation and technological innovation in Indian finance, leading from the consumer perspective on these issues. 

Beni Chugh Dvara

Beni Chugh

Head - Future of Finance

Manvi Khanna

Research Associate

Sarada Mahesh

Senior Research Associate

Our Work

August 18, 2026 | Dvara Research

Our comments to the Draft Guidance on Regulatory Expectations for Data Governance

July 27, 2026 | Dvara Research

The Draft Guidance proposes broad regulatory expectations for model risk management across the model lifecycle. It intends to strengthen governance, oversight, risk management and controls of Regulated Entities (REs) using models (including AI / ML models). In this response we present our comments to the Draft Guidance, through six recommendations

By The Future Of Finance Initiative
July 16, 2026 | Dvara Research

As algorithmic systems increasingly shape financial decisions, this blog explores how they can de-humanize individuals by reducing them to data points.

June 4, 2026 | Dvara Research

In this blog, we trace the emerging contours of India’s domestic approach to governing AI in finance and identify the priorities that should shape the next phase of policy thinking, in light of alarm bells triggered by Mythos, and OpenAI’s cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak.

June 1, 2026 | Dvara Research

The growing prominence of Responsible and Trustworthy AI (RTAI) frameworks reflects increasing recognition of these harms. Contemporary RTAI approaches recommend safeguards across the lifecycle of AI systems to ensure explainability, transparency, contestability, auditability, and human oversight, while reducing the potential for bias and discrimination.

May 10, 2026 | Dvara Research

In this response, we present our comments to the paper. We divide our comments into three sections.

March 12, 2026 | Dvara Research

In this response, we present our comments to the Draft Amendment Directions for ‘Advertising, Marketing and Sales of Financial Products and Services by Regulated Entities’ issued by the Reserve Bank of India on February 11, 2026.

October 8, 2025 | Dvara Research

This blog is based on the recent uptake in conversations on the reformation of the know-your-customer (KYC) process in the financial sector. We find the periodicity of the current KYC system to be of concern for various reasons. The periodic updates of KYC present a burden on the customer to validate themselves every few years, failing which they are at risk of being excluded from the financial system.

July 17, 2025 | Dvara Research

The Consultation Paper sets out the landscape of use cases of AI prevalent in the Indian Securities Market.